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We have our first title change since The Stew introduced its Glass Joe Title a few weeks back. Named for lovable loser Glass Joe of “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out” fame, the titles — one for each league — belong to the losingest losers in baseball. But not by record, in head-to-head series. The Los Angeles Angels had been saddled with the Glass Joe Title since getting swept by the Houston Astros. But the Angels fared well enough over the weekend to break free from their Glass Joe-ness. Now it belongs to the New York Yankees, who lost two of three games in Anaheim. George Steinbrenner must be turning over in his grave — or trying to sign Chipper Jones. View full post on Yahoo! Sports – MLB – New York Yankees News

In case you missed it late last night, RHP Rafael DePaula has been promoted to High-A Tampa. Here are some other notes and roster moves: Triple-A Scranton: CF Melky Mesa (shoulder), UTIL Ronnie Mustelier (groin), and RHP Sam Demel (unknown) have all been placed on the DL, reports Mike Ashmore. 1B/DH Randy Ruiz was signed out of the Mexican League to give the club another warm body. Double-A Trenton: LHP Matt Tracy (unknown) was placed on the DL and RHP Corey Black sent back down to High-A Tampa according to Ashmore. Black’s recent promotion was just a paper move, apparently. High-A Tampa: RHP Shane Greene and RHP Sean Black were both promoted to Double-A Trenton according to Josh Norris. Greene has been awesome. Low-A Charleston: LHP Dietrich Enns has been promoted to High-A Tampa based on his Twitter feed. He’s been outrageously good and the promotion is long overdue. Miscellaneous (via Matt Eddy): RHP Cory Arbiso has been re-signed. He spent parts of five years in the system as an organizational arm before being released at the end of Spring Training … RHP Dan Mahoney and 1B Luke Murton were released. He led the system with 25 homers last year but he didn’t hit a lick this year (22 wRC+ at Triple-A). Triple-A Scranton Game One (10-1 loss to Rochester in seven innings) makeup of the April 10th rainout C J.R. Murphy: 0-3 LF Zoilo Almonte: 2-3 — 15 hits in his last 33 at-bats (.455) 1B Dan Johnson: 2-3, 1 R — ten hits in his last 28 at-bats (.357) with three doubles and two homers RHP Caleb Cotham: 2.1 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 8 BB, 1 K, 1 HB, 4/0 GB/FB — only 34 of 83 pitches were strikes (41%) … I can’t ever remember an eight-walk outing in all the years I’d been DotFing RHP Mark Montgomery: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 2 WP, 1/1 GB/FB — 18 of 30 pitches were strikes RHP R.J. Baker: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 2/1 GB/FB — 14 of 30 pitches were strikes (47%) … he’s the backup catcher, by the way Triple-A Scranton Game One (5-3 win over Rochester in seven innings) LF Zoilo Almonte: 1-3 DH Randy Ruiz: 2-3, 1 R, 1 K — welcome back to the organization C Bobby Wilson: 1-3, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI — came into the game hitting .188/.317/.316, in case you were wondering what the alternative to Austin Romine was doing in Triple-A RHP Graham Stoneburner: 4 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 8/2 GB/FB — 40 of 67 pitches were strikes (60%) RHP Chase Whitley: 2 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 2/2 GB/FB — 15 of 21 pitches were strikes (71%) … 18/6 K/BB in 19 innings Double-A Trenton had a scheduled off-day. High-A Tampa (6-4 loss to Dunedin) they faced a rehabbing Brandon Morrow and Jose Reyes CF Mason Williams: 1-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K — doubled and flew out against Morrow … left the game after grounding out in the seventh, so he either hurt something or dogged it and got benched 2B Rob Refsnyder: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B — singled and grounded out against Morrow LF-CF Ben Gamel: 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 K — singled off Morrow C Gary Sanchez: 1-3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — drew a walk against Morrow DH Angelo Gumbs: 0-3, 1 BB, 1 K — hit into a double play against Morrow RF Yeral Sanchez: 0-4, 2 K — 3-for-27 (.111) since joining the team RHP Bryan Mitchell: 5 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 3 WP, 7/0 GB/FB — allowed two singles to Reyes, but he also struck him out once … 19/5 K/BB in his last 23 innings Low-A Charleston is off until Thursday for the All-Star break. RHP Alex Smith and RHP Ben Paullus have replaced DePaula and Enns on the Southern Division roster. C Peter O’Brien is the only other Yankees farmhand in the game. Short Season Staten Island (2-1 win over Brooklyn) full lineup since it’s the first game of the season, but the box score is broken, so I did everything off the play-by-play … you’re welcome … believe it or not, they are now 2-13 all-time on Opening Day 

Welcome to the Richmond County Bank Ballpark for the Home Opener against the rival Brooklyn Cyclones.  …Read More Prior to the game the Baby Bombers were introduced to the home crowd. Staten Island Manager Justin Pope and Brooklyn Manager Rich Donnely share a laugh with the umpires prior to the game. Right-hander Giovanny Gallegos got the call to start the game.  He went Five innings, throwing 53 pitches to earn the win. Second baseman Derek Toadvine made a fantastic bare-handed play in the first inning Third baseman Francisco Rosario followed up with a great play at third to end the first Shortstop John Murphy was the lead off hitter for the Baby Bombers, going 2-for-3 with a walk for his pro-debut. He was followed by Second Baseman Derek Toadvine. Third-round Draft Pic Michael O’Neill was in the third spot in the lineup.  He was 2-for-4 with 2 Stolen Bases in the game. Centerfielder Brandon Thomas batted clean up and was 1-for-4 with a run scored in his professional debut Followed by Yeicok Calderon who was 2-for-4 And Isaias Tejeda, who was 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored Daniel Lopez was next.  In the first inning he was drilled in the head with the first pitch of the at bat. Manager Justin Pope and the trainer looked at him. He then walked off on his own and was replaced by Mikeson Oliberto Bubba Jones batted eighth and was 0-for-4 Francisco Rosario ended the Yankees line up going 0-for-3 Brandon Thomas and Isaias Tejeda are congratulated as they enter the Yankees dugout after plating the only two SI runs of the game. —- At the end of the night the Staten Island Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Cyclones 2-1 in front of a crowd of 6,711 fans.  The win was just the second Baby Bomber victory on Opening Day in the team’s history.

This afternoon, it was morning. For me, anyway. I spent most of the off day in California, jumped on the Brian Cashman conference call at noon Pacific Time, put the basics on the blog and then headed north on the 405 to catch a flight back to New York. I’m actually in the air right now. In the scramble of catching a flight, put the basics of Cashman’s conference call on the blog using the notes I was taking during the call. Here are the extended quotes on some of the bigger topics of discussion. On the long-term concern for Mark Teixeira… “Like before the season started, when this injury hit, he’ll either get through it or he’ll have to have surgery. The MRI showed no new tear, it’s not a re-injury there; it’s inflammation of the tendon. But is this something that’s a recurring theme because of the previous injury that’s going to prevent him from being all he can be? If that’s the case, he’ll have to have surgery. That’s not a long-term concern; it would be a this-year concern. It could be as simple as it got inflamed, we have to calm it down and then turn him loose and he doesn’t have an issue going forward, or it’s a much broader issue that has every relevance to that injury and it’s not going to survive. I can’t tell you. I don’t think anybody honestly can tell you right now. The experts looking at the MRI diagnosed it as an inflamed tendon, and clearly it’s related to the injury he had in the spring. Is it something that’s going t prevent him from playing? Is it something that’s going to eventually force him to have the surgery? I can’t rule any of that stuff out.” On whether the Yankees would consider using Teixeira as a right-handed hitter… “I haven’t thought about it. I would tell you this: I would think that if it’s something that is going to prevent him from playing, that would make him a part-time player, I’d rather he just go get it fixed (with surgery). Up until him pulling himself from the game because he was having issues, there’s been no conversations that have been conveyed to our medical staff, our doctors, front office, that he was having any issues at any time.” On Kevin Long’s comments about Teixeira… “It’s alarming in the fact that K-Long would say that to the group of the reporters, but he never said that prior to that. This is a lot of times how things work out when things go bad, things get said that, if K-Long felt that way, he should have been saying that from day one, but we never heard that from K-Long. Before anyone asks, am I mad at Kevin Long because of that? No. But do I think that that commentary jibes with Kevin Long’s comments internally in that clubhouse regarding this player prior to him going down? The answer absolutely is not. So sometimes in the situation where people have a chance to say something publicly it’s a lot different, or you have a conversation with somebody saying why are you saying that today when you never said any of that in any day prior to this. That’s the only way I can answer that. So if K-Long said that, he’s a monk, because he kept his mouth shut the whole time.” On the long-term concern for Kevin Youkilis… “Back issues usually don’t get better. They can, but they’re very debilitating and hard to get a handle on. It’s definitely a concern. As of right now, I’m not planning on him until they tell me I can plan on him. He’s going to see (Dr.) Watkins and we’ll get an update on that. I can’t say I’m expecting bad news, good news or any news, but I just know he’s not the player that he can be because of the back right now. Are we going to be in a position to get that player back at some point throughout this season? It would be nice, but just don’t know what the issue is and what’s possible. The early process of what he’s been dealing with, the full expectation was that the time out would help and he would be back. That obviously hasn’t happened. Medici

The Yankees have released an updated list of signed draft picks. The players highlighted in grey have officially signed. We learned today that Ian Clarkin has agreed to a deal, but it’s not yet official. The post Yankees announce more draft signings appeared first on The LoHud Yankees Blog.

We have our first title change since The Stew introduced its Glass Joe Title a few weeks back. Named for lovable loser Glass Joe of "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out" fame, the titles — one for each league — belong to the losingest losers in baseball. But not by record, in head-to-head series.The Los Angeles Angels had been saddled with the Glass Joe Title since getting swept by the Houston Astros. But the Angels fared well enough over the weekend to break free from their Glass Joe-ness.Now it belongs to the New York Yankees, who lost two of three games in Anaheim. George Steinbrenner must be turning over in his grave — or trying to sign Chipper Jones Read more Chipper Jones news

I understand why we let him go. If you love someone, and you are destined to only bring pain to them - like Lon Chaney or that Wolverine guy in the X-men movies - it's the only thing you can do. So we let Chien-Ming Wang go to Toronto - we just sat there at the kitchen table, trying not to cry, staring into the whiskey bottle, while he filled his duffel, walked to the door, turned one last time to give us a smile... and marched out of our lives. And we have sucked door knobs ever since.Two weeks ago, we were so knee-deep in pitching that we didn't even make Wang a counter offer. Nope. We had Vidal Nuno (now injured), Adam Warren (now in Scranton) and the emerging nation known as Michael Pineda (who pitched really well in his simulated game, I mean, Cashman says he was dealing, it might have been a shutout, one of the finest simulated games pitched all year, a quality start, no doubt) and we have Chris Bootcheck as our long man. Wow. That sounds like something Jack Nicholson would type in a Stephen King movie. Chris Bootcheck as our long man... Chris Bootcheck as our long man.Chris Bootcheck as our long man.Chris Bootcheck as our long man. Chris Bootcheck as our long man. Chris Bootcheck as our long man. Chris Bootcheck as our long man. Chris Bootcheck as our long man. Chris Bootcheck as our long man. Chris Bootcheck as our long man.Sorry about that. What the? I can't escape the font! IT'S HAPPENED: I'm stuck in a Stephen King movie! It's called "WANGSTARTER." It's about a pitcher who makes a deal with the devil; he'll make a comeback with his old team, but they throw him overboard, and he comes back as a ghost to cut off their heads. Wait: That's no movie. That's it. That's now. Chris Bootcheck IS our long man. And Chien-Ming Wang last night threw seven shutout innings for Toronto. Seven shutout innings. We should have him. Everybody knows this. He should be pitching for us. God knows this. Everybody knows this. We watched him pack his bags. We watched him walk out the door. We ran to the window and watched the cab take him to the airport. Why didn't somebody say something? Why didn't somebody stop him? Swept in Oakland. Nearly swept in Anaheim. We're never going to get another shot at Chien-Ming Wang making a comeback with the Yankees. Chris Bootcheck is our long man. Chris Bootcheck is our long man.Chris Bootcheck is our long man.Chris Bootcheck is our long man.Chris Bootcheck is our long man.

There's no game today, so that means we have to come up with something for all you people to do tonight. I've come up with a terrible idea, but I'm going to run it by you anyway. Joe Girardi comes up with some stupid nicknames for his players, but some of them are really funny. The best ones are the ones he actually doesn't call them and I find it fun to guess who he calls what. Does he add a -y to their last name or their first name? The suspense kills me. I like to guess what he'd call every player in the Yankees organization because I'm cool like that. Now, we're going to play a little game, since it's an off day. Come up with the most ridiculous Joe Girardi nickname you can think of, whether they're Yankees, baby bombers, opponents, or anyone else. Just like with the John Sterling open thread, let's have fun with this stupid little corner of the Yankees universe and see if we can't come up with something better than Phelpsie and Hughesie. You can talk about other stuff too, I guess, but do this stupid thing too! I'll start you off: What would he call the Yankees' recent draft picks?

(Jeff Gross/Getty) Most off-days stink, but I think I will enjoy this one just as much as the players. The Yankees have been brutal for a few weeks now, but especially the last week in particular. Even yesterday’s win was exhausting. This is a good night to relax and forget all about baseball for a few hours. Here is your open thread for the night. The Mets are playing the Braves (Gee vs. Hudson), the Cubs and Cardinals will be on ESPN (Wood vs. Miller), plus Game Three of the Stanley Cup Finals will be on as well. You folks know how these things work by now, so have at it. Post from: River Ave. Blues A New York Yankees blogMonday Night Open Thread

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Monday that he is leaning toward placing first baseman Mark Teixeira on the 15-day disabled list, but a final decision has not yet been made.